The programme, which features work by emerging filmmakers from across the world, is selected from and coincides with BFI Flare. Through our global network in over 100 countries, we encourage people to watch the films in solidarity with LGBTQ+ communities in places where freedom and equal rights are limited and we ask audiences to share the films using the hashtag #FiveFilms4Freedom in recognition of the fact that Love is a Human Right.

In 2018, the five films were viewed 6.3 million times by people in 152 countries, including parts of the world where homosexuality is criminalised.